The Easter Decorations

O take away your dried and painted garlands!

The snow-cloth’s fallen from each quicken’d brow,

The stone’s rolled off the sepulchre of winter,

And risen leaves and flowers are wanted now.

Send out the little ones, that they may gather

With their pure hands the firstlings of the birth,-

Green-golden tufts and delicate half-blown blossoms,

Sweet with the fragrance of the Easter earth;

Great primrose bunches, with soft, damp moss clinging

To their brown fibres, nursed in hazel roots;

And violets from the shady banks and copses,

And wood-anemones, and white hawthorn shoots;

And tender curling fronds of fern, and grasses

And crumpled leaves from brink of babbling rills,

With cottage-garden treasures-pale narcissi

And lilac plumes and yellow daffodils.

Open the doors, and let the Easter sunshine

Flow warmly in and out, in amber waves,

And let the perfume floating round our altar

Meet the new perfume from the outer graves.

And let the Easter “Alleluia!” mingle

With the sweet silver rain-notes of the lark;

Let us all sing together!-Lent is over,

Captivity and winter, death and dark.

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• Robert Burns: The Epitaph: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson: A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Election Ballad: At the close of the contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790. Addressed to R. Graham, Esq. of Fintry. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: I Murder Hate: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lines To A Gentleman,: Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of Expense. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sketch -New Year’s Day [1790]: To Mrs. Dunlop. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries: On New Year’s Day Evening, 1790. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Election Ballad For Westerha’: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Dr. Blacklock: Ellisland, 21st Oct., 1789 by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: To Mary In Heaven: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Whistle -A Ballad: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Heart’s In The Highlands: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: A Waukrife Minnie: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Awa’ Whigs, Awa’: by Robert Burns

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